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For the week ending October 24, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States was 194,000, expected to be 199,000, and the previous value was revised from 194,000 to 195,000.

OKX founder and CEO Star stated on social media that they will promote perpetual contracts into the regulated U.S. market. This project is jointly advanced by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange), the on-chain perpetual contract platform Trade.xyz, and OKX.According to public information, ICE has signed a final agreement with Trade.xyz to plan the establishment of an independent trading and clearing system in the U.S., supporting 24/7 perpetual contract trading for stocks, indices, commodities, foreign exchange, and crypto assets. Among them, ICE serves as the exclusive operator for the U.S. market, Trade.xyz is the exclusive partner for ICE to launch this business in the U.S., and distribution to retail users will be conducted through a joint venture between ICE and OKX.Star stated that this collaboration will combine ICE's institutional-grade market infrastructure, Trade.xyz's on-chain innovation capabilities, and OKX's distribution and trading technology, aiming to create a new generation of global, round-the-clock financial markets.

Xiaohongshu fully acquired the AI travel tool Circumference Travel's affiliated company. The latest business information shows that Xiaohongshu Technology Co., Ltd. has become the sole shareholder of Chaochao Shishi Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., with former shareholder Zheng Yifan exiting. Circumference Travel provides a "one-click homework copying" feature, allowing users to paste links of notes from Xiaohongshu and public account travel guides, after which the AI can extract attractions and restaurants, generate a map route, estimate transportation time, and support collaborative itinerary modifications with friends. QuestMobile data shows that in February this year, its monthly active users reached approximately 2.49 million, a year-on-year increase of 384.7%, ranking among the top ten travel service apps, with users aged 25 to 35 accounting for 72.1%.By the end of 2025, the Circumference Travel team had stated that they would not engage in flight and hotel bookings. In September of this year, the app added features for AI querying flight, hotel, and ticket prices, allowing users to directly jump to partner platforms for booking after reviewing their itinerary, and check order status within the app. Last year, Xiaohongshu also acquired the development entity of its AI search product Diandian. Diandian is used to help users find destinations and filter activities, while Circumference Travel can organize promotional notes into executable itineraries and guide users to make bookings.

According to Binance spot market data, the market is showing a divergence between bulls and bears. SYRUP increased by 5.06%, and Niulai increased by 5.25%, while also showing a rebound from the bottom.On the other hand, DJTB hit a new low for today, with a decrease of 7.65%, and 0G also hit a new low for today, with a decrease of 10.48%. RDDTB reached a new low for this week, with a decrease of 11.63%.Among the other tokens, INIT increased by 3.14%, while also showing a small increase over 5 minutes. AVA, STX, and BLUR also showed a rebound from the bottom, with increases of 5.92%, 6.01%, and 6.21%, respectively.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin responded to Ruxandra Teslo on X, stating that he believes AI is extremely knowledgeable and can excellently identify quotes in almost any content, but it is not wise, and therefore can only make the most superficial judgments about the viewpoints a piece of writing attempts to express.Vitalik Buterin noted that this situation is particularly evident when AI analyzes text it reads for the first time, as opposed to analyzing text that already exists in the training data, which comes with a lot of analyses from others. He also mentioned that the knowledge of AI is more easily seen than its limited wisdom, as wisdom may be something that is difficult to verify easily, which is different from intelligence.This reply was directed at Ruxandra Teslo's post. Ruxandra Teslo expressed that the related post made her feel pessimistic about humanity and believed that the discussions of large language models regarding her article are still low-quality content; she was responding to Sichu Lu's statement that AI is better suited than humans to discuss classics at that time.

Japan Tax Free, a Japanese duty-free service provider, announced that it will officially launch the yen stablecoin JPYC tax refund service in collaboration with UPBOND on November 1, providing an on-chain tax refund channel for foreign tourists visiting Japan.According to the new duty-free system implemented in Japan on the same day, tourists must first purchase goods at tax-included prices and then receive the tax refund after customs confirmation upon departure. The new service will issue JPYC to tourists using the wallet infrastructure provided by UPBOND, utilizing the Avalanche C-Chain.

According to BBX data, the global capital markets revealed the latest developments in direct investment in Bitcoin and the performance of brokerage digital asset businesses yesterday. The core information is as follows:Japan Bitcoin Industry has completed a capital increase of 840 million yen, fully paid in physical Bitcoin: The Web3 infrastructure developer Japan Bitcoin Industry announced the implementation of a third-party share allocation capital increase, successfully issuing shares to two institutions, Fulgur LLC and ANAP Lightning Capital (ALC), raising a total of 840 million yen (approximately 5.07 million USD). Notably, this capital increase will be fully funded in physical Bitcoin, with on-chain delivery expected to be completed on November 2. At the same time, the company signed a basic agreement for cooperation in Lightning Network routing business with ALC, which will use the Bitcoin held by ALC as the underlying liquidity for the company's operational channels. The raised funds will be specifically used for the research and development of the infrastructure "aurora" (supporting enterprises to access Lightning payments via API), talent recruitment, and local routing network infrastructure.Robinhood (NASDAQ: $HOOD) Q3 crypto revenue plummets 55%, causing overall profits to fall short of expectations: American internet brokerage giant Robinhood released its third-quarter financial report. The data shows that due to a slowdown in cryptocurrency trading activity and increased operating expenses, overshadowing its strong performance in options and prediction markets, the quarterly profits fell below Wall Street expectations. In the third quarter, its cryptocurrency trading revenue decreased significantly by 55% year-on-year to 120 million USD. Although options trading revenue grew by 31% and event contract revenue surged more than sixfold, driving overall trading revenue up 19% year-on-year to 867 million USD, total operating expenses also increased by 16% year-on-year to 739 million USD. The company's earnings per share for the quarter were 0.51 USD, falling short of analysts' expectations of 0.55 USD, leading to a drop of over 7% in its stock price in after-hours trading.

According to Cointelegraph, Stellar has launched Project Thruput, a new execution model that has gone live on FutureNet. Early benchmarks show that the model achieves 7.02 million payments per second by scaling across multiple machines.

According to a report from the Beijing Daily client, the Market Supervision Administration of Haidian District, Beijing, investigated and handled the city's first illegal case of assisting pyramid schemes using blockchain and virtual currency technology, resulting in a technology company being fined and confiscated a total of over 930,000 yuan.The technology company involved is an outsourcing service provider for a certain public blockchain, offering support such as operations, market services, publicity and promotion, exchange docking, and maintenance. This public blockchain launched the "Atomic Plan" and "Hathaway Plan," which are centered around recruiting people for rebates, using the number of recruited individuals as the basis for rebates, and requiring participants to invest funds to obtain membership qualifications. Despite being aware of the pyramid scheme applications associated with this public blockchain, the involved company continued to provide technical operations, external publicity, and maintenance of virtual currency trading channels, facilitating the flow of funds and the spread of activities related to the pyramid scheme.Ultimately, the pyramid scheme activities of this public blockchain were investigated by public security authorities, the organizers were criminally detained, and the involved technology company was administratively punished with a total fine and confiscation of over 930,000 yuan for providing facilitative conditions.

The BNB Chain execution-oriented Rollup project Matrix announced that it has received additional Series B funding from Shima Capital and Delphi Ventures, bringing the total amount of this round of financing to 8.5 million USD. Previously participating institutions in this round include ParaFi Capital, Tribe Capital, Point72 Ventures, CMT Digital, Lightspeed Faction, BITKRAFT Ventures, and Makers Fund.The funds from this round will continue to be used to advance the mainnet launch, the construction of the ZK validity proof system, and the Stage 2 decentralization process. Matrix is built on the Facet technology stack and is adapted to the BNB Chain PoSA consensus, with no centralized sequencer and no administrative privileges; the transaction order is directly determined by the BNB Chain. The official claim is that it can effectively increase the throughput of the BNB ecosystem by 3 to 5 times. Currently, Matrix testnet Phase 1 has been launched.

According to The Block citing local media reports, South Korea's ruling party, the Democratic Party of Korea, will meet on Friday with representatives from the country's five major cryptocurrency exchanges: Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax, to discuss whether to postpone the cryptocurrency tax originally scheduled to take effect in January 2027.The party has proposed a bill to delay the implementation until 2029, citing insufficient infrastructure and difficulties in obtaining transaction data.

GMO Internet was previously attacked, leading to suspected leakage of customer information data. The company refused to pay the ransom and stated plans to compensate customers for their losses.It is reported that GMO Internet operates the cryptocurrency exchange "Z.com EX," which has obtained licenses from the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission and the Thai Ministry of Finance. The exchange has disclosed that it has been acquired, involving the acquisition of all shares of the target company held by shareholders such as GMO Internet and its related subsidiaries. It is currently unclear whether the customer information data is related to the cryptocurrency exchange.

BNB Chain announced on platform X that the Jenner hard fork upgrade has been launched on the BSC testnet. The upgrade includes Payment Lane, which reserves 5% of the block gas for eligible payments by default; provides millisecond-level block timestamps for smart contracts; and introduces a new compliance asset standard CAS20.Payment Lane and CAS20 will only be fully enabled after governance, with more details to be announced later.

On the morning of October 29, the banking sector continued to rise during the trading session, with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, and China Construction Bank all increasing by over 1%. The total market capitalization of the four major banks' A+H shares has historically surpassed 10 trillion yuan for the first time.Among them, the total market capitalization of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is 2.94 trillion yuan, Agricultural Bank of China is 2.58 trillion yuan, China Construction Bank is 2.35 trillion yuan, and Bank of China is 2.15 trillion yuan.

The non-profit Ethereum development lab Ethlabs announced that Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie has joined Ethlabs as an anchor funder, and Payward and Gattaca have joined as contributors.Its initial anchor funders include BitMine, Sharplink, and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin.

Alex Witt, founding partner of the venture capital firm focused on stablecoin infrastructure, Verda Ventures, announced that he and partner Amit will join Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer. Tether was previously one of the limited partners of Verda Ventures.With the two joining Tether, Verda Ventures, which has been operating for three years, will enter the investment recovery phase and cease investing in new companies to avoid potential conflicts of interest. The fund will continue to manage and support its existing 28 portfolio companies and selectively participate in follow-on financing.

Analyst Jukan from Citrini stated on social media that Samsung's current stock performance is lagging behind SK Hynix, seemingly because Samsung's shareholder return plan is either not as generous as initially expected or still carries uncertainty. Against this backdrop, there is a saying circulating in South Korea that Samsung's management is deliberately avoiding bullish statements, involving tax considerations for the company's controlling family member, Chairman Lee Jae-Yong.More specifically, Lee Jae-Yong's mother, Hong Ra-hee, gifted Samsung shares to her son. It has been reported that the gift tax he needs to pay is calculated based on the average closing price during the four-month period around the gift date of November 12, specifically from September 12, 2026, to January 12, 2027. Therefore, the Samsung controlling family has no motivation to drive up the stock price before January of next year.

According to the Digital Currency Research Society, on October 27, Beijing Bank released a public tender announcement for the procurement project of firewall equipment for digital currency business in 2026 through the official centralized procurement management system. Along with the previously announced procurement projects for IPS, encryption machines, WAF, SSL, signature devices, etc., the bank has officially launched a centralized upgrade of the full-chain security infrastructure for digital renminbi business, covering core security nodes such as intrusion defense, encrypted transmission, web application protection, and identity signing.In April of this year, Beijing Bank became a newly added operational institution for digital renminbi business and connected to the central bank's digital renminbi system. In August, the central bank added 8 more operational institutions, expanding the total to 30. Previously, several newly added operational institutions, such as Huishang Bank, Hangzhou Bank, and Guangxi Beibu Gulf Bank, had initiated tenders for core digital currency systems worth tens of millions. The report pointed out that Beijing Bank's inclusion of various security devices such as firewalls and encryption machines in centralized procurement is a proactive security layout to adapt to the new features of digital renminbi, such as high-concurrency transactions and programmable smart contracts.

According to a report by Reuters citing informed sources, Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.O) has signed agreements with Bloomberg, quantitative trading and market-making giant Hainar International, and Jump Trading to obtain posts released by Trump more quickly.

Advanced packaging company Shenghe Jingwei released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026. The operating revenue for the first three quarters was 5.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.45%; the net profit attributable to the parent company was 636 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 18.48%. The operating revenue for the third quarter was 1.71 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 8.33%; the net profit attributable to the parent company was 186 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 45.96%, a decrease of 27% compared to the 258 million yuan in the second quarter.The company stated that the changes in profit were mainly due to tight supply of core materials, a year-on-year decrease in revenue, and ongoing capacity expansion, along with an increase in depreciation costs year-on-year. The announcement on the same day showed that for the first three quarters of 2026, a total of 265 million yuan was provisioned for credit impairment losses and asset impairment losses. The net cash flow from operating activities for the first three quarters was 2.08 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 30.60%. The company stated that this was mainly due to a year-on-year decrease in government subsidies, the return of customer credit deposits during the period, and increases in material procurement and employee compensation.As of the end of September 2026, the balance of monetary funds was 8.558 billion yuan, total assets were 28.144 billion yuan, an increase of 24.51% compared to the end of the previous year; the equity attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 19.294 billion yuan, an increase of 33.73% compared to the end of the previous year. At the end of the period, fixed assets were 12.172 billion yuan, an increase of over 20% compared to the end of the previous year, and construction in progress was 1.558 billion yuan. In the company's 2.5D business, SmartPoser-Si has been mass-produced, and SmartPoser-BD has completed full-process verification.